Senate Passes War Funding Package, Including Provisions On Medicaid, Birth Control Discounts

The Senate on Thursday passed a supplemental war funding bill that includes a provision that removes a disincentive to pharmaceutical companies to offer deeply discounted birth control to college health centers and certain non-profit family planning clinics, CQ Today reports. The bill also includes provisions preventing seven new Medicaid regulations from taking effect until April 1, 2009.The drug pricing change is modeled after legislation (

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Filed under: Medicare / Medicaid / Tricare on June 1st, 2008